Re: [Leica] new user

[Mark Cohen <markc@binaryfaith.com>]

"As bright as the average garden snail" ?!

I didn't realize I could laugh as much as I do when I read some peoples
posts! :)

Keep them comming!

- -Mark


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Martin Howard wrote:

> Charles Hahn jotted down the following:
>
> > I think using a screw mount Leica can not only be
> > cheaper than getting a Bessa, it also gives you a real
> > education in Photography.
>
> More likely to give you a real education in how far camera technology has
> come over the past 60-70 years.  Sure, we can wax romantic about the glory
> of screwmounts all we like, but the fact of the matter is that they're a
> gigantic pain in the arse to load, expensive to repair, likely to need
> repair (or at least CLA) right after being bought, don't have a built in
> meter, possess a viewfinder which is about as bright as the average garden
> snail, and are more likely to provide you with a real education in anger
> management than anything to do with photography.
>
> I had a lovely black Leica II from 1933 which I tried using as a camera,
> because I had romantic notions of 1930's photography.  After finally
> realizing that cameras are tools rather than items of jewelry, that I was
> living in the 21st century, and that no matter how hard I imagined it I'd
> never be HCB, I eBayed the little bugger and got a set of converter rings
> for my LTM lenses which now sit on my M6TTL, when not doing time on a
> Bessa-L.
>
> M.
>
>

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